A Very Sad Day
It was a long and very sad day, but I got to spend much of it with friends and associates I have known for many years, people I like and respect enormously. We gathered together to support Scott Jensen and Sherry Schultz at their sentencing hearings.
I will never apologize for my association with Scott Jensen and Sherry Schultz. They are good people who were, as Boots and Sabers aptly put it,
“tried and convicted for activities that hundreds of legislators and previous Speakers did before Jensen ever set foot in Madison.”
Scott and Sherry have conducted themselves with dignity and respect throughout this process, and although they will have to endure further indignities that seem unimaginable, I know they will come through it with their self respect intact.
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Robert La Follette would be proud.
Every time some one is sent to prison or publicly humilated it is a sad day. Its OK to be a true and loyal friend but please quit excusing his conduct. The Judges who sentenced Chvala and Jensen both expressed appropriate regret of the decline of political representation in Wisconsin. Jensen was an architect of that decline. All for power for himself and moneyed special interests whom he chose to represent. Even with all of this, the legislative leaders in Madison continue to object to any real oversight of their ethical conduct.
What other choice did the judge really have in trying to discourage others from following or dismissing SJ's conduct? I hope for SJ's sake, he drops his appeal and moves on. He was justly tried and convicted after attempting numerous legal maneuvers that a normal citizen would not attempt.
Every time some one is sent to prison or publicly humilated it is a sad day. Its OK to be a true and loyal friend but please quit excusing his conduct. The Judges who sentenced Chvala and Jensen both expressed appropriate regret of the decline of political representation in Wisconsin. Jensen was an architect of that decline. All for power for himself and moneyed special interests whom he chose to represent. Even with all of this, the legislative leaders in Madison continue to object to any real oversight of their ethical conduct.
What other choice did the judge really have in trying to discourage others from following or dismissing SJ's conduct? I hope for SJ's sake, he drops his appeal and moves on. He was justly tried and convicted after attempting numerous legal maneuvers that a normal citizen would not attempt.
Don't listen to the haters who like to post on your site. It was truly a sad day, and a day of injustice. Scott Jensen most certainly did not get what he deserved.
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Apparently the standard for what SJ deserves is set by the special interest School Choice group who doubled his salary last year while he was still receiving a paycheck from local taxpayers. How that arrangement is not a conflict of interest and OK with the Ethics Board just shows how corrupt and twisted SJ and his supporters world really is. I admire SJ's intellect and talent but I am disgusted by how he chose to use that intellect and talent
Republicans are so put upon. Oh, the injustice!
Tell me, is the "everybody is doing it" argument acceptable with respect to all crime or only certain crime? Only white collar crime? Only crimes committed by Republican politicians? What about hold-ups in crime-riddled neighborhoods? What about theft by an unemployed worker trying to feed their family? What about looting after a hurricane that Republicans spoke out against? 'Everyone' was doing it, right?
Seems like a departure from the "tough on crime" stance that Republicans seem to love.
Another question: Can Jensen be rehabilitated? Oh, that's right. He didn't do anything wrong. Does rehabilitation work only for certain criminals? Probably.
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